SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism will launch a weeklong cultural exchange program in New York on Saturday, aiming to introduce Korean Zen meditation and temple cuisine to local audiences. A group of around 100 monks and staff members from the Jogye Order will be visiting the U.S. city [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism held a special ceremony Tuesday celebrating the construction of the first South Korean temple in Bodh Gaya, India where Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is said to have attained enlightenment. The ceremony was held via an online video conference between India and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The decades-old conflict over the collection of admission fees for cultural assets has resurfaced. Admission fees to view and visit cultural property, which are collected by some temples, are based on the Cultural Properties Protection Act, which allows owners of state-designated cultural properties to collect the costs of viewing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Obuldo, a depiction of Five Buddhas by 18-century Buddhist monk Uigyeom, was purchased by American artist and teacher Robert Mattielli for $10 at a Seoul antique shop in the early 1970s. What he didn’t know, however, was that it has been stolen from Songgwang Temple earlier in the 1970s. [...]